Four years ago today I made my first newspaper blackout poem, and to celebrate the anniversary, I’m giving away a signed, limited-edition print of “Overheard On The Titanic,” hand silkscreened by my friend, painter and printmaker Curtis Miller:

YouTube: Silkscreening Newspaper Blackout Prints

There were only 18 of these babies made: one is hanging on the wall in my library, sixteen are in a flat file waiting to be sold in the distant future, and one could belong to you.

All you have to do is leave a nice comment below, or tweet with the hashtag #newspaperblackout some time in the next week before next Monday, Oct. 26th, Midnight CT. I’ll pick the winner at random.

The giveaway is now closed. Congrats to the winner, Matt Wilson, and thanks to everyone who entered! More contests to come.

After that, you can browse the new Newspaper Blackout Archives or read my favorite poems from 2006-2008.

Thanks so much to everyone for reading! Y’all rock.

Buy my book and more prints in the store

After a summer of promising y’all prints, I’m really happy to announce that Jen Bekman and the folks at 20×200 are releasing two editions of newspaper blackout poem prints next week on Tuesday, September 29th!

[ On sale now! ]

If you’re not familiar with 20×200, here’s the formula:

(limited editions x low prices) + the internet = art for everyone

Blackout poems for everyone! Prints as cheap as $20. Recession friendly. I hope y’all will buy one or two.

I’ll post images of the poems on Tuesday, but until then, you can subscribe to their really great mailing list to get advance notice of when they become available.

More on Tuesday!

Making lithographs of a Newspaper Blackout Poem from Austin Kleon on Vimeo.

More footage from our printmaking extravaganza last weekend in San Marcos. This time, it’s Clif Riley making lithograph prints of “Visual Thinking.”

Read more about lithography (and printmaking).

Silkscreening Newspaper Blackout Poems from Austin Kleon on Vimeo.

(Youtube link for Iphone users.)

Video of my friend and painter/printmaker extraordinaire Curtis Miller pulling screenprints of Newspaper Blackout Poems last weekend in San Marcos, Texas. (Tell him how awesome they are on twitter.)

(Watch it in full HD!)

The prints will be on sale soon!

Also: the ACLU digs blackout poetry: